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Man has used sculpture as a form of expression since pre-historic times. Some of the earliest sculpture finds are not realistic expressions. This of course is important for HBC as our interest is in realism because we are looking for detailed depictions of fashion. With the rise of civilization, more realistic sculptures appeared, in part because of developing technology and refinement of skill. The Greeks developed sculpture to a new level, moving away from the rigidity of archaic forms. Greek scuplture during the the classical and Hellenistic eras focused on the idealization of its primary subject--the human form. This tells us little about fashion, but of course a great deal about intelectual development. Sculpture as an art form declibed after the Hellenistic era until the European Renaisance. Modern scuplture has moved away from realism as has art in general, presumably reflecting the impact of photography. We have in our art section focused on painting. This is because painters over time have left us a marvelous historical record of clothing, depicting in great detail fashion styles, colors, and materials. The same is not true of sculpture. Not only are there fewer sculptures, but there is much less detail about the clothing. Of course color in modern scupltures does not exist. And often sculptors did nude forms. Some of the most famous boy sculptures, from the Kouros boy at the dawn of Greek sculpture to Michaelanglo's "David" at the height of the Renaissance, are nude works. This means of course that fashion was largely absent, except hair styles. Thus we have given little attention to sculpture. We do hope to eventually address scupture and will gradually work on this section as well. We will, however, load any scuturers that have left us useful images.
Man has used sculpture as a form of expression since pre-historic times. Some of the earliest sculpture finds are not realistic expressions. This of course is important for HBC as our interest is in realism because we are looking for detailed depictions of fashion. With the rise of civilization, more realistic sculptures appeared, in part because of developing technology and refinement of skill. The Greeks developed sculpture to a new level, moving away from the rigidity of archaic forms. Greek scuplture during the the classical and Hellenistic eras focused on the idealization of its primary subject--the human form. This tells us little about fashion, but of course a great deal about intelectual development. Sculpture as an art form declibed after the Hellenistic era until the European Renaisance. Modern scuplture has moved away from realism as has art in general, presumably reflecting the impact of photography.
We have in our art section focused on painting. This is because painters over time have left us a marvelous historical record of clothing, depicting in great detail fashion styles, colors, and materials. The same is not true of sculpture. Not only are there fewer sculptures, but there is much less detail about the clothing. Of course color in modern scupltures does not exist. And often sculptors did nude forms. Some of the most famous boy sculptures, from the Kouros boy at the dawn of Greek sculpture to Michaelanglo's "David" at the height of the Renaissance, are nude works. This means of course that fashion was largely absent, except hair styles. Thus we have given little attention to sculpture. We do hope to eventually address scupture and will gradually work on this section as well. We will, however, load any scuturers that have left us useful images.
There are a number of sculptures from various countries archived on HBC. A HBC reader has provided us a sculpture he noticed in Serbia. It is a sculture he notice in Belgrade of a classical Greek-styled man and boy. We norice a patriotic bas-relief sculpture in Turkey.
We have some information on famous sculptors. François Rude was a French Romantic sculptor. Here we have a close-up image showing the "Little Neapolitan Fisherboy", one of his most famous sculptures. It is now in the Louvre Museum. We note a work by Robert Jackson (1840-78) who did a marble sculpture of a kilt-clad Scotish boy. Do let HBC know if you know of any other interesting sculptures.
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